Tenth Doctor Drabble - We Start and End with Family

For juliet316 a little belated birthday drabble.   Thanks to mrs_roy  for the title.  The Doctor's thoughts during that lovely little scene near the end of The Christmas Invasion.  Fic is unbeta'd.

Family. It’s something the Doctor tries hard not to think about. Only madness lies that way, grief and loss overshadowing every happy memory.

Yet since meeting Rose the darkness surrounding those thoughts, that word, has lessened. Here in this street, with three pairs of arms entwined around him, accepting him, he dares to dream of family again.

Rose, Mickey, Jackie, their lives may be fleeting but they make him feel almost whole with their simple embrace and the knowledge that he is loved.